The purpose of the “Outreach Advisory Services” arm of the Sampoerna School of Education (SSE) is to share its knowledge base and expertise to providing both Government and private NGOs support and advisory services to their various educational initiatives.
Its main focus thus far has been in supporting government initiatives in their efforts to improve the performance of their teachers and principals and the upgrading the curricula, administration, and management of their schools.
As of December 2009, the Outreach Unit has arranged for its parent the SSE to provide programs of various degrees for the professional development for more than 14,000 teachers and principals from government and private schools across Indonesia. This initiative has been recognized by many local government education officers as providing valuable contribution to the improvement of the teaching force within their individual jurisdictions.
Furthermore, its initiatives to help state high schools wishing to upgrade their status to an international level has to‐date helped 17 state high schools and 5 Madrasahs (Islamic schools). Two to three years after its implementation, these schools typically experience notable advancements in students’ scores in English, Mathematics, and Economics of up to more than 19%. The national rankings of these schools also improve significantly.
Programs:
- To establish partnerships and networks to share responsibilities, resources and advantages to improve the learning outcomes and to develop the leadership potential of young Indonesians.
- To continue to advise and support state high schools who wish to upgrade their status to include an International qualification (Sekolah Bertaraf Internasional) by temporarily taking them under our wing as we lead them through the process of improving and enhancing their curricula and school management systems.
- Through the facilities of SSE (parent), to provide programs for the training and upgrading the skill quality of state school teachers and principals.
- To provide programs to assist in a schools to use best practices to Improve and Develop systems, protocols, and administration, including community and parental involvement
- To find appropriate content and develop programs to bring basic literacy skills to women members of the Koperasi Sahabat Wanita
- To provide education Recovery and Relief for disaster‐afflicted areas Our emergency school facility assistance includes emergency school tents, water purification systems, school rehabilitation and construction, teacher and student scholarships, teacher training, textbook donations, laboratory construction, school construction, and library rehabilitation.
- To provide, through our collaboration with Education‐USA, US universities and Indonesian students who wish to continue their education in the United States advisory and other services targeted at increasing the enrolment of Indonesian students in US universities. These include the seeking and arranging of sponsorships /scholarships for studies in the United States for the deserving young who hail from the lowest economic quintile in Indonesia.
